Treasurer Hyatt's Report on the Government Finances
Washington reports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887 show total government receipts of 371,403,277 and ordinary expenditures of 267,932,179 with a surplus of 103,? million. Revenue rose in all items led by postal and system receipts, while Indians pensions and public debt rent showed largest expenditures. silver certificates rose by about 30 million, currency in circulation increased, and treasury holdings fell by about 25 million. Debits and redemptions in deposit certificates and national banks reflect a broad fiscal expansion and stabilization across the year.
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Washington
Hyatt
Post Office Department
Treasury
United States
Lhese Remainers
Ottstanding
Anarchists Buried in Chicago Crowd Deluged by Silence
Immense Chicago crowd witnesses the burial of five anarchists Spies Fischer Engel Linge with little riot. Procession to Waldheim, speeches by Reitzel Morgan Currtin provoke anti-authority rhetoric, crowd murmurs cruelty to the law as coffins are interred.
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Chicago
Parsons
Fischer
Engel
Louis Linge
Waldheim
Captain Black
Robert Reitzel
Oy . TL
J. Morgan
Morgan
Albert Currtin
Arbeiter Zeitung
Harrangue
Oratory
Dime Museum Man Proposes Linggs Remains Show
A Chicago report notes a dime museum man offering 10 000 to loan Louis Lingg’s remains for five years to display in the United States. Lingg’s supporters and critics are described as the public eye considers sensational exploitation. An attempt to derail a western passenger train near Men e is reported as a separate incident where wooden cords were found on a coach track.
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Onscago
Engel
George
Busi
Pasia
Roger
Edo
Mene
President Cleveland Accepts Commissioner Sparks Resignation
Washington dispatch details the president accepting Commissioner Sparks resignation from the land department. Cleveland expresses appreciation for Sparks' service, notes policy will continue under law and court judgment, and wishes him success in future endeavors.
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Sparks
Washington Dispatch
the. Interior
Land’department
Grover Cleveland
Aftermath of Anarchist Executions Shared by Friends
Chicago reports depict grieving families removing prisoners belongings from the jail cell including clothing books and a girl’s portrait. Lingg’s mother tale suggests a nobleman father and a harsh portrait of class and mental strain amid the executions. Elsewhere Most is arrested in New York for incendiary speech and Orangeville sees another dynamite blast near a police home.
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Chicago
Defense ‘Committee
Schuwab
Miss. Engel
Eda“Mueller
Schwab
Engel
Lingg
Fischer
Henry
Christ Spies
Nina van Zandt
Rand
Lingy
Litgg
Nar‘chist
Mannheim
Tim -No
Gray
New York
Byrne
Hall
Seventh Street
Conning
Waa
Byrnes
Union Pacific Overland Route Expands Third Class Travel
The Overland Route now runs free family sleepers and adds third class travel from Council Bluffs and Omaha to Portland and Los Angeles, spotlighting the only line delivering United States overland mail.
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Union’ Pacific Railway
United States Overland Mail
Council
Bluffs
Omaha
Portland
Los Angeles
International News Roundup from May 16th
Fourteen killed in a coal mine explosion near Dortmund at Greisenail. Emperor William drove out, later met Prince Bismarck. Ex-lord mayor Sir William McArthur died in an underground railway carriage. Rev Charles A Berry undecided on Plymouth church offer. London Globe notes 20,000 special constables to curb riots. Crown Prince German walked, met emperor and Brazilian empress. Michael Davitt commented on O Briens life in Limerick. Liberal League conference backed home rule, federation, parliament, education, suffrage. Irish court overturned coroner verdict on police shooting. Italian Parliament opened by King Humbert II with hopes of stable finances.
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Greisenail
Dortmund
William
Prince Bismarck
William McArthur
London
Charles
A. Berry
Beecher
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
London Globe
Germany
Brazil
Michael Davitt
Limerick
O’brien
Mack
Irish Court of Queen's Bench
Mitchelltown
Himbertin
Lamar comments on Supreme Bench, Cleveland, Sparks
Secretary Lamar told a Herald reporter that he would accept a Supreme Court seat if offered and praised Detroit’s Don M. Dickinson. He discussed Sparks resignation, stressing no shift in land policy under President Cleveland, and said no single man is essential in this government as changes occur.
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Cleveland
Sparks
New York
Lamar
The
Herald
Supreme Bench
Hig
Te” Ritor
Don M. Dickinson
Detroit
Democratic Party
An Old Man Kills Wife and Burns Body in Furnace
Stephney Bailey, an elderly engineer near Duckpond on the Northeastern road, killed his wife with an axe after a quarrel. He hid the body, stripped clothing, and burned it in the engine-room furnace. The next morning bloodied garments were found. Bailey confessed, was jailed handcuffed, attempted suicide by cutting his throat, and was found unconscious the following morning.
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Columpra
Stephney ‘Bailey
Duckpond
Bailey
Verdict on Lingg death explored in Chicago inquest
In Chicago on November 16 the Lingg death inquest opened after three anonymous letters accused jurors of outside involvement. Jailer Folz and a medical witness described Lingg's death by a two inch long dynamite filled bomb exploded by his own hand during a personal crisis.
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Lingg
Goroner
Conrad Folz
Mayer
Englehart
Oneill
John—O Klein
Holv Lingg
A. Vertlich
Lingy
Baby with a Bomb Shocks Laurel and John Streets
A child nearly unable to talk found a dynamite bomb meant to blow up a stable. A second child, under seven, was involved. The weapon was a gas pipe device with a cap and fuse wrapped in yellow paper. A passerby seized it and handed it to Central Police Station after warning authorities.
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Cincinnati
Laurel
John Streets
Central Police Station
Oliver Street
Runaway Baltimore train halted by vigilant baggage master
Washington special reports Richard Moore, a baggage master on a Baltimore and Ohio accommodation train, saved many lives by stopping an engine that ran away at Gaithersburg. He jumped from the baggage car and boarded the locomotive, bringing the train to a stop at about thirty miles per hour as crowds feared a collision with an incoming express.
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Washington
Richard Moore
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Gaithersburg
Moore
Chamberlain on Expanding Extradition Treaty
Joseph Chamberlain stated in Washington that expanding the 1842 extradition treaty between Britain and the United States to include more crimes is desirable. He rejected including political offenses, stressing the aim to simplify extraditions of ordinary criminals.
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Chamberlain
Suing for Lands In Dakota Dispute
The Northern Pacific Railway Company sues in U S district court to enforce ownership of lands in Dakota recently entered by government land office pre emptors. Judge Nelson issued an order to show cause why an injunction should not be served. Hearing set for December.
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St. Paul
Northern
Pascific Railway Company
United States District Coursé
Ihe
Dakota
St. Chona
Farge
Guit
Udu
Ge Nelson
Dex Fendants
Whem
Daxcember
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Dime Museum
Remaiia
Canada
Orangeville
Ont
Anderson
MR. Lamar
Marquette
Mich
Arizona
Superior Transit
Portage
Government
Adge
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